Racial disparities in research funding

Christine Yifeng Chen is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she is developing radiochronometric dating tools for nuclear forensics investigations of interdicted nuclear materials. In 2022, Chen led a study showing systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation. This work was covered in various outlets such as Science Magazine and The New York Times, and recognized by President Biden with an invitation to the White House for the CHIPS and Science Act signing ceremony.